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  Which Religion is best for you.

  by Not_Culty in

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  scratchme1010

  LOL! Great chart. As always, I don't quite fit in any of the boxes, starting with the first one.

  Thanks.
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  Where Do You Think Your Dear Loved Ones Are?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  since we were jws at one time, has it influenced your view as to where your dead loved ones are now?

  i know many here do not believe in anything biblical but i’m curious as to whether you believe anyone is in heaven?

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  scratchme1010

  Since we were JWs at one time, has it influenced your view as to where your dead loved ones are now? I know many here do not believe in anything biblical but I’m curious as to whether you believe anyone is in heaven??
  

  This is a very interesting topic. I have mentioned before that when it comes to God/god/"god"/higher power/something out there, I don't have a belief, I have an attitude about it. I think that the same applies to where are my lost loved ones.

  I don't know, but I also don't care. I don't feel like it's worth repeating what those who are non-believer think about christian and other religious believes regarding lost loved ones (or anybody else who has passed away for that matter).

  I know that losing a loved one (I have lost a few) is painful, and I want to believe that their lives and the mark that they left in my life matter. And I guess I wish I knew that they are happy and ok if they are somewhere. That's the extend of how much I think about it. I celebrate their lives and the time that I had the opportunity of sharing with them.

  I'm also sensitive, mindful and respectful of others who have different believes (or non-believes). Coping with their loss is very entangled with those believes, and I'm no one to mess with how others cope with losing a loved one. That's not the time or place for me to make a point or "being right".
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  Film about a Jehovah's Witness with leukaemia

  by Amelia Ashton in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=83t1gmazgsm&feature=youtu.be#menu.

  a trailer for "the children act".

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  scratchme1010

  Thanks for sharing this.
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  Cognitive Dissonance meme

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i find this kind of amusing:.

  a jw social media account recently posted a meme about cognitive dissonance seen here.. .

  and then all the jws in the comment section predictably apply it to those in christendom..

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  And then all the JWs in the comment section predictably apply it to those in Christendom.
  

  Is that a bad thing? It applies to everything that it applies to. BTW, that's not a meme.
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  Eye-brow Wigs ... are a thing?

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  ... and apparently justin trudeau wears them.

  also, they can come off or slip down while you are doing a press-conference to a global audience.

  what a god awful embarrassment this fool is, he should stick to his indian costume dress-up and dancing routine.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g46km4da3yw.

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  Jeez guys do you believe everything some kid puts on You Tube ???
  

  You're talking to ex-JWs, what do you think?
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  My son graduated last Friday

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have talked about him before on this forum.

  he is now a graduate from mit!.

  it was a lovely weekend.. i got to meet some of the friends he has made in the past four years, and some of their families.. they were very nice, decent, friendly, and enjoyable people.

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  MIT is a great school. Congratulations. Trust me, your support is very, very important.
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  Japan Is Building The Worlds Fastest Computer

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ai technology in a 1,000,000 times faster than your pc.

  this super intelligence will make solfware, analyze data and chrunch the number to find new cures.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkw6q0o_zoy.

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  scratchme1010

  Japan Is Building The Worlds Fastest Computer
  

  Again? I've been hearing that song since the 80's.
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  Australians deadlest animals just for our American friends

  by MightyV8 in

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  australians deadlest animals.

  https://youtu.be/mrrao_vg_k4.

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  scratchme1010

  Thanks. Interesting.
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  Zeal vs Fanaticism. What is the difference?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a good friend of ours and i were chatting the other day about the difference between a zealous person and fanatical person.. what is the difference?.

  why is someone praised for being "zealous" , but another person is mocked or condemned for being a "fanatical" person?.

  how would jws be classed?.

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  scratchme1010

  I looked at the definitions for each, and the terms seem to be somewhat related.

  zeal - great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective.
  fanaticism - the quality of being fanatical.
  fanatical - filled with excessive and single-minded zeal

  Seems like becoming fanatical is an unhealthy exaggeration of being zealous. I hope this helps.
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  Praying for apostates

  by BubbaBoBobBrain in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i had heard that jehovah's witnesses cannot pray for disfellowshipped individuals or apostates.

  is this true?.

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  scratchme1010

  I had heard that Jehovah's witnesses cannot pray for disfellowshipped individuals or apostates. Is this true?
  

  Ask the JWs about it.